Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hemenway goes on forever! We need no compulsory attendance to bring the host of graduates and undergraduates there to enjoy the benefits of basketball, boxing, wrestling, and fencing, even if those benefits are hampered by poor equipment, limited space, and miserable ventilation. Far more fortunate are those who take their exercise in football, baseball, soccer, track, and lacrosse, but these sports are played on Soldiers' Field and Soldier's Field is a memorial to the fallen dead of the Civil...
...barriers hindering industrial reconstruction. The idea, while not exactly novel in a decade of international schemes, is sufficiently challenging to the status quo to suartle opposition and suspicion. None will deny the benefit of removing prejudices, broadcasting new inventions, communicating the latest efficiency measures; but there are a host who will struggle to keep industrial cooperation from progressing further. When investigation passes beyond the realm of ideas, subjects to the real barriers to scrutiny, and suggests tariff revision; then the opposition will normally arise...
...their honoring of Christ. Kings brought rich gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant. Mary Magdalene brought to Him her alabaster box of precious ointments and broke it at His feet in her repentance. Cathedrals have gone up in magnificent pomp for the housing of the Host. All have been for the honoring of Christ in the Eucharist...
...method of honoring Christ was devised at Lille, France. Bishop Gaston de Segur inspired his people to a public demonstration of their faith. This first public celebration was only local with relatively few adherents. But even so, the open air parading of the Host was dramatic. The idea spread, was dramatized the next year at Avignon, France. In 1888 the VI Eucharistic Congress met at Paris and centred its pomp and circumstance about the Church of the Sacred Heart,* whence one overlooks all of grey Paris and beyond towards Chartres. Many a great city has seen these congresses ? Antwerp...
...lesser clergy ?gold bannered folk, Dominican friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, the legate...